21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: New versions of newlib.library and string.gadget class
Via AmiUpdate two updated system files are availble: string.gadget lass 53.24 and Kickstart module newlib.library 53.80. Changes:
string.gadget V53.24
- Rewrote the SHK_PASSWORD handling in the GM_RENDER method in a way that does not require temporarily replacing the buffer in si->Buffer (fixes a race condition when STRINGA_TextVal is read).
- No longer temporarily writes an 'n' character to the end of the buffer, which should fix some nasty race conditions when accessing the buffer.
- Fixed the text cursor sometimes being rendered with a wrong width when placed at the end of the string. This bug was a side effect of changes made in the previous release.
newlib.library.kmod V53.80 (excerpt)
- Fixed the clock() function which was comparing time values using different different epochs, as well as time zones if the local time zone did not
happen to be GMT.
- Replaced GetSysTime() in rusage() and clock() with GetUpTime() which is guaranteed to be monotonically increasing.
- Fixed a bug in setstate() that would cause the long word in front of the previous state buffer to be overwritten instead of the the first long word in the buffer.
- Made always include as it is needed for SIZE_MAX, for now at least.
- Added the previously missing asnprintf(), vasnprintf(), _asnprintf_r() and vasnprintf_r() functions to shared object and small data builds of libc.
- Disabled .__newlib_version section and linker warnings for shared object build of libc.
- Updated libauto.a to the latest version with VBCC support.
- mongetpcs() now uses the locally opened elf.library interface instead of relying on a global IElf interface existing.
(dr)
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21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5 (update)
At the end of October 2018, RadeonHD driver version 3.6 came out with the release of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade", as a supplement to the Enhancer 1.x package, which later also became part of Enhancer Software 2.0. With version 2.1 of Enhancer, version 3.7 of the graphics card driver was released.
Finally, version 2.2 of the Enhancer software was released recently, which did not include a new RadeonHD driver, but did include an updated version (1.11) of the va.library. The Video Acceleration Library was developed to support hardware video decoding on Radeon Polaris (RX) cards. Apparently, hardware acceleration for both Polaris RX cards and RadeonHD cards was already integrated in this version, but for the latter case, version 5 of the RadeonHD graphics card drivers was required, which was not yet available at that time (see AmigaKit's contribution on Amigans). Among other things, this resulted in the media player Emotion from Entwickler-X now crashing, because the software loaded the new va.library but did not find version 5 of the RadeonHD driver. This could only be solved by deactivating or reverting to the old version.
After purchasing it under the title link for 50 Euro at AmigaKit (still not available on AmiStore), now this driver is available as version 5.14 via the Updater tool, device-specific for the SAM 460 and the two AmigaOne computers, X1000 and X5000 and brings the driver up to the same feature set as the RadeonRX driver. Most important changes:
- Dropped support for all graphics cards older than Southern Islands
- switched to a new code-base for the core
- added Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
- added UVD (hardware accelerated video decoding) support
- added GART support
- A bunch of miscellaneous fixes and improvements
Suitable graphics cards can be found via the RadeonHD driver compatibility page.
The RadeonHD v5 driver works also fine without the Enhancer Software. But it is required for hardware accelerated video decoding.
Update: (24.09.2022, 07:38, dr)
According to AmigaKit in a press release, the new RadeonHD driver can be directly purchased on A-EON's website until he will be made available on AmiStore. (dr)
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20.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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Platformer: "BlobWars: Attrition" 1.2.2r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
A month ago, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - had released the first version of his port of the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported).
The now updated version is also available for MorphOS for the first time and offers a lot of bug fixes, but especially an improvement of the performance. So the game should now be playable on not so powerful computers and SDL renderers, as long as you have a graphics card with some memory available. Unfortunately, it still wouldn't be playable on computers with 32 MB of graphics memory or less. Also, the debugging window that appears when the game starts has been removed.
The developer himself tested the MorphOS version on a PowerBook G4, where it "worked quite well". On his X5000 with the Radeon HD 6850, the game unfortunately only worked with a software renderer and was not playable due to a lack of suitable drivers.
Anyone who wants to support the author has the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. The author returns 50% of the donations to the community at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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20.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.35
A week ago Hans de Ruiter had released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP' (amiga-news.de reported). Users reported here crashes at program start, which was due to a missing initialization of AmiSSL. The bug has been fixed and version 1.35 is available for existing users either via AmiUpdate or as download under the title link. (dr)
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19.Sep.2022
Erik Hogan
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.7
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.7. Changes:
- Mouse support, including support for two simultaneous mice
- Improved support for separating assets for different targets (to make it easier to have specific animations or levels for OCS, AGA etc)
- Further performance gains from improved 68K compilation
- Various bug fixes and feature additions
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 31 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 31 was published. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 14M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
MCE.lha game/edit 3.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ADoom-1.4.1.lha game/shoot 184K 68k Amiga port of DOOM
DoomSndLibs.lha game/shoot 31K 68k New Sound & Music Libraries f...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
dS-tpro.lha text/bfont 123K high res topaz font for squar...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
ColorPicker.lha util/wb 8K 68k tool for get color from Workb...
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18.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
a1xe_hardware_fixes.zip doc/tut 796kb 4.0 Official Eyetech AmigaOne XE USB...
eaqne.lzx gam/adv 15Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click with d...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 14Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 212kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
ign-addon-xlsx.lha off/spr 301kb 4.0 Ignition addon for access xlsx-f...
ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
yt.lha vid/mis 799kb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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18.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
murks_0.6.0_fix.lha dev/ide 1Mb Murks an Integrated Development ...
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18.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.3r2.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
AmiArcadia_29.11.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.25.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
EAQNE_demo.lzx Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
MCE_14.0.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
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18.Sep.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.09.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 17.09.2022:
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.1 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This is now based on WebKitGTK 2.36.7 and thus fixes various errors within WebKit itself. Therefore, the update is recommended despite the fact that due to yesterday's release of WebKitGTK 2.36.8, version 4.2 can already be expected in the next few days.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.40 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported).
In version 0.40 he has added 16/9 Parallax side scroller with a warrior, a slot machine update and fixed some bugs. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
Twitter
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #21 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 21 (summer/autumn) are an article about Amiga in NASA service, the second part about the situation of Amiga in 2022 and several game reviews.
The magazine is available as printed issue inclusive Commodore 64/128 coverdisk for 9,54 Euro plus shipping (about 5 Euro) or as digital issue for 2,12 Euro. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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Floppy disks, part two: Who got them? Tom Persky!
Recently, the offspring discovered the almost criminally forgotten floppy disks as a game object, which not only our one, but also many readers were drawn into many fond memories. However, there is someone who never lost interest and passion for collecting floppy disks and even made a business out of it: Tom Persky.
He is the founder and operator of floppydisk.com. I stumbled across an Interview with him the other days, which is included in the book Floppy Disk Fever - greetings to Joerg Doege :) and now published by "Eye on Design", the editorial platform around design issues.
He bought the domain in the early 1990s and was originally involved in duplicating floppy disks. As he says, he "never in a million years thought I would ever sell blank floppy disks." His business, which used to be 90% duplicating CDs and DVDs, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. Which he finds shocking. Currently, he has about half a million floppy disks in inventory, but also offers a disk recycling service.
Of course I asked him if he also had experience with Amiga users...As he writes, this is limited to the duplication of floppy disks. He has one or two Amiga customers who order duplications of a few hundred disks. He can still do that, since he still has some duplicators that recognize and support the Amiga format. Unfortunately, since he no longer has any original Amiga equipment, he does the duplication, but the final quality control has to be done by the customer. Even though his equipment is very reliable, there is always some nervousness when he sends disks that he cannot test.
Now it's great that his business still exists, but I wanted to at least see if there was a local alternative to America. I thought I had found one, but the offer to sell blank floppy disks is currently not available. And I was asked not to mention the site either, lest I get a flood of inquiries...;).
So if you are in the process of writing your own text adventure, with umpteen high-resolution background graphics, and want to put it on the market on 10 disks per slipcase, you will have to look elsewhere... ;)
Have a nice weekend! (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-09-16
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
Yesterday version V2022-09-16 was released. Changes:
- fixes an error in Apple II disk image handling that caused corruption upon save
- adds emulation of the Apple II SCSI card
(dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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Real-time strategy: Update of Vanilla Conquer
Artur Jarosik had released version 1.0 of his port of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in May (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a separate version ("vanillatd_no_vamp.zip") for Amigas without Vampire accelerator card, which offers a twice optimized rendering speed. Also, the custom cursor is now enabled in the game. (dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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Video: What is DMA?
In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga. (dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 1.0.8
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.0.8 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Enable PHY_MODE_DMA_TIMER by default if no GreenPAK is present on V1.1 hardware
- Initial implementation of synchronous mode for RP2040
- Add device type autoconfiguration for more filename prefixes: MO, RE, TP
- Relocate Apple default drive IDs to shared code
- Add platform support for upcoming RP2040-based ZuluSCSI
- RP2040: custom bootloader & performance improvements
- RP2040: Fix SCSI-2 mode not getting enabled due to ATN handlinghttps://github.com//pull/64
- RP2040: Add support for SCSI-1 single initiator mode
(dr)
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15.Sep.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 600
After the currently sold out versions for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 or ITX/Micro ITX PC-, 8bits4ever today officially introduced a conversion kit for the Amiga 600 as well.
As with other MiSTress models, the original Amiga 600 keyboard can be used as a regular USB HID device, and the case LEDs light up just like the MiSTer's. As the site writes, this first batch will take about 5-6 weeks to be ready for shipping. The introductory price is 135 Euros plus shipping.
Among other features, the MiSTress 600 has a hub with five USB ports, RGB/VGA DB15 connector, RCA stereo audio (with selectable I2S DAC), two DB9 joystick connectors (SEGA Megadrive compatible), and an internal 2.5-inch drive bay. The keyboard controller has an extended keyboard layout, which gives access to most of the keys you would find on a normal 104-key keyboard, and which are otherwise missing on the Amiga 600 key set. (dr)
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15.Sep.2022
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Amiga Alive and Kicking also at Amazon Prime in the USA
The crowd-funded documentary "Amiga Alive and Kicking", which has been available for download since the end of June (amiga-news.de reported), is now also available on Amazon Prime - but currently only in the USA. (snx)
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14.Sep.2022
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Text adventure: Pre-order of Collector's Edition of "Silk Dust"
In the middle of the last year, Davide Bucci had released the third part of his text adventures series called "Silk Dust" (amiga-news.de reported. "poly.play" now offers a collector's edition for 27 Euro plus shipping. It includes:
- 3.5" floppy disk
- Cardboard box
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- Compass in linen bag
- 8-page DIN A5 manual (English)
- Stickers
- Poster (Din A3)
- Shrink-wrapped
The box will be available from 03. October 2022 and can be pre-ordered now. (dr)
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14.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.3
For more than a year Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka presented the audio editor 'Rave' developed by him in status updates on his blog, at the end of June he released the first version 1.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 1.3 includes the following changes:
- Unlimited Undo, with an option to use the Extended Memory Objects framework.
- Added support for WAV files containing IMA ADPCM-encoded data.
- Faster processing, loading and saving of long samples thanks to optimizations in the sndeditor.gadget.
- Fixed: The list of assigns in the file requester got improperly sorted under certain conditions.
- Fixe: Applying Mute didn't change the project status to modified, so the Save function remained unavailable.
- Fixed: Pasting mono data from the clipboard into a stereo project didn't work.
- Fixed: Auditioning a right-channel selection always played left-channel data by mistake.
- Fixed: The channel mixing code in Convert Channels was broken and produced some distortion.
- Updated program documentation.
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (dr)
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13.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaKit: Switchless floppy boot selector
British dealer AmigaKit offers a switchless boot-selector for the Amiga 500 or 2000 floppy drives at the title link: Pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga for five seconds makes DF1 the boot drive, while the original DF0 is switched off. Pressing the key again reverses this. (snx)
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13.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.21
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.21 of his spreadsheet ignition, which requires at least AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6. The new version corrects bugs in some functions, now allows file suffixes with more than three characters and offers a revised manual.
The ods-addon has also been updated. The extension allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among others. Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.37:
- now some more functions are converted
- solve a problem with ms ods-files
- corrects a failure in calculation of column and row size
A new addition is the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS Excel files. This is a first, early version of the extension, the integration in ignition must still be done manually. Here tested with a calendar file (left ignition, right Excel):
Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum (German) at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (dr)
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13.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.34
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"ZitaFTP Server v1.34 has just been released, and can be downloaded. This version marks a major milestone: it's no longer a pre-release.
No, this doesn't mean it's perfect. I have plenty more features and enhancements to add. ZitaFTP Server has matured to the point that the pre-release label can be removed. It's a solid product.
The ZitaFTP Server logo has been refreshed, and is looking nice. It's been incorporated into the installers too, so the generic banners are gone. In brief, here are the (cross-platform) enhancements and bug fixes:
- UI sidebar menu now only shows the pages that a user has access to
- Enabled Link-Time-Optimization (LTO) for release builds. This reduces the compiled binary size by removing unused library code (and other optimizations)
- Fixed timer event removal to eliminate a SEGV fault on exit when the ACME autorenewal client is active
- Fixed a potential hang in the event loop with slow tasks (such as ACME certificate renewal tasks)
- Fixed thread pool so more than one thread can run at once
The AmigaOS version got some special attention this time round. Here's what AmigaOS users have to look forward to:
- Added an AREXX port
- Installer now has upgrade and maintenance modes when an existing installation is detected. Upgrading just got easier
- Added AutoInstall script
- Updated libcurl to use AmiSSL, and deleted the statically linked OpenSSL that was there only for libcurl (reduces the binary size by several megabytes)"
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' costs around 47 Euros. The program can be tested free of charge for 30 days. (dr)
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12.Sep.2022
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Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris
Yesterday, Sami Vehmaa - also AB_Template - has released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas with gfx board (YouTube video).
The game was written in AmiBlitz 3 and requires AmigaOS3.x, AHI, RTG 960x540 16-bit for full screen mode and 35MB RAM. The game can be also started from Workbench in 800x600x16, but then you cannot change to full screen mode. Atris can be purchased for at least 3 Euro on itch.io. (dr)
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11.Sep.2022
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Image processing: FPU version of RNOEffects 1.4
In the middle of August, developer 'jPV^RNO' had released version 1.4 of his image processing program "RNOEffects" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he additionally compiled and released a FPU version which according to him is much faster for certain functions. (dr)
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11.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to Aminet:
ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 212K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
ign-AddOn-XLSX.lha biz/spread 301K OS4 ignition addon for access xls...
ignition.lha biz/spread 4.9M OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha biz/spread 1.2M Sourcecode ignition 1.21
NewsCoaster_FR.lha comm/news 20K French catalogs for NewsCoast...
evo.lha dev/e 648K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
mhi_dev.lha driver/aud 62K 68k MHI Dev - The new standard in...
croaker.lha game/actio 120K 68k Amphibian survival game.
sormelus.adf game/misc 880K 68k Finnish game for testing typi...
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
RNOEffects_68k_FPU.lha gfx/edit 5.6M 68k Image processing program
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
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11.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
amoskittens.lha dev/lan 2Mb 4.1 Amos the kitten is amos basic in...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ciagent.lha emu/mis 171kb 4.0 Minimal CIA resources and hardwa...
tbftss.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 The Battle for the Solar System ...
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
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11.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
icaros23_fix.tar uti/mis 161Mb Little fix for icaros desktop v2.3
(snx)
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11.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.3.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
LHArchiver_1.5.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Doom3-ProjectUAC_r6_2.lha Games/Shoot3D Doom3 ProjectUAC
AmiTube_1.3.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
HotBorder_1.10.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... HotBorder is a commodit...
TinyGL-Update-2022-09-... System/Update Second public MorphOS T...
(snx)
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11.Sep.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: TinyGL beta version 2022-09-08
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, the developer has released a third beta version of his TinyGL update.
Among other things, the shaders now continue to work correctly even after resizing the window. A detailed description of the new features can be found in the archive's readme file. (snx)
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11.Sep.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Programming language: AmiBlitz pre-release 3.9.6
Besides three bug-fixes, the pre-release 3.9.6 of the programming language AmiBlitz adds an optimization of "moveq" - if value is in byte range, moveq will be used instead of move.l. (snx)
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10.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: free AMOS interpreter AMOS Kittens 0.8
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command won't work as this project use a bit more modern chunky image format instead of the planar graphic format". (amiga-news.de reported). The source code is available on GitHub. Changes of version 0.8:
- Remove the required version 53, for extensions.
- Fixed sticky key problem, due to missed key up event.
- Don't allow BLoad to blow up if, bank is not found.
- Reserve AS - commands fixes
- Fixed DirFirst$(filename$) problem.
- Make sure zones are freed, on exit.
- Mouse Limit, X Mouse, Y Mouse problems fixed.
- Command Set Font bug fixed.
- Fixed broken iconify support.
- Added error requestors.
- Open requester on errors.
- Added version string to exe file.
- Minor improvements to Polygon
- Improvements to packaging.
- Fullscreen now has back border.
- Fixed joystick / joypad, offsets of buttons / axis
(dr)
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10.Sep.2022
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Frogger clone: Croaker
A classic: In the game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river ((Wikipedia entry)). In the now released Amiga adaptation "Croaker" (YouTube video), the task remains the same, but becomes more difficult with each level, as the number of lanes increases. The game offers a 2-player mode and runs with AmigaOS 1.3 and 512k chip ram by default. (dr)
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10.Sep.2022
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Demoscene: Function 2022 demo party in Hungary
Function is currently the biggest Hungarian demoscene party, which takes place this weekend in Budapest. Among other things, there is a competition for Amiga demos. Those who don't want to travel themselves can follow the event on Twitch. (dr)
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10.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.35 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported).
Version 0.35 released today, he has included three different tests of the collision function as well as different test options to read the keyboard. (dr)
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09.Sep.2022
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Tutorial: Setting up a FTP server under MorphOS, connecting to devices
Amiga-News.de reports about news from the Amiga world, informs about developments, projects, news. However, our readers - the normal Amiga user as well as developers and programmers - have a wealth of experience and practical knowledge themselves, which can provide added value for everyone. Therefore we would like to make such knowledge more available to the general public. The MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 user 'emeck' has kindly taken the trouble to document how he sets up an FTP server under MorphOS in order to connect to the cell phone for data exchange, as in this case. But of course this is also possible from other devices like laptop or Raspberry Pi. Many thanks, 'emeck'.
"Now that floppies and even CDs/DVDs maybe not available to everyone, we can use several ways to tranfer data to/from our Amigas using networking. FTP is one of those ways, either by connecting to an FTP server or running it on our Amiga.
In this case, We will configure an FTP server under MorphOS, which is really simple to do thanks to OrangeFTP. Installation and usage is explained clearly in the program's guide but we'll add some screenshots here.
First we need to setup at least one user for connecting to the server. This is done in MOS setting. So we need to open Settings-->System-->Users. As you can see in the screenshot, I have already set up my default MOS user, which is the one I use to connect through FTP. Here you can set one for you.
The Home Dir is the Volume/Drawer you will have access when connecting with your FTP client. And the Login and Password is obviously the credentials you use for connecting.
You can add other users in the Users Tab. At first, it will be empty but clicking the Add New User button will let you fill in some fields for the new user as seen in the next screenshot:
In this case we have a user "ricardo" who is limited to browse the Download drawer in the Work: volume. Each user should have its unique User ID but all users defined here should have the same Group ID. So if we add here a new user like "tony", the Group ID must be 1000 too while the User ID could be 2. You can also configure an anonymous user that doesn't need a password to log in.
Next, after configuring the users, we need to configure the group in the Groups tab. This is also empty at firs too, but using the Add New Group button show again some fields for us to fill.
Here you have to add group called "ftp" and use the same Group ID you used to define our users (1000 in our example).Finally, add the names of the users, seperated spaces in case you want more than one.
Now we only need to run OrangeFTPd double clicking its icon or running it from the shell (in which case the gui won't open; you should pass the "-gui" option for that). So finally, we have our FTP server running!
As you see, we are not connected right now. We'll do it shortly. OrangeFTPd also has some settings we can change clicking the Config button, like the port it is using or the welcome message when connecting. Here are the default settings.
Now, for connecting with my Android phone I use AndFTP. Basicaly we need the login name, password, the IP of our Amiga and port number (21 by default for FTP).
Here you have the screenshots for the config I use for AndFTP on my phone (the same settings also work for connecting with Filezilla with my RPi or Debian laptop).
After configuring the client, now we can connect. OrangeFPd shows the current successfull connections. As you can see in the next screenshot, my MOS server has now 1 active connection.
So, this is a simple way to transfer data between my MorphOS system and my Linux/Windows/phone devices over my local network. FTP is not secure so if you want to access from outside your local network, you better user other protocol and security measures."
(dr)
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08.Sep.2022
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ADF tool for macOS: ADFMaster
'Matze1887' - among other things jump'n run Minky - has released a first version of his ADF tool "ADFMaster" for macOS. It is still under development, but already works for many tasks. For example, image files can be created simply by dragging and dropping.
The tool is available on itch.io starting at four Euros. (dr)
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08.Sep.2022
Twitter
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Hardware: AmigaONE X5000 complete systems available
As Alinea Computer announced in a recent Twitter message, AmigaOne X5000 complete systems are currently available from them and can be requested. (dr)
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08.Sep.2022
TheoTheoderich per Mail
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Trading game: Developer update of "Settle the World"
For the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, 'TheoTheoderich' is developing his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he has reprogrammed the menu for his game and documented this with some, short YouTube videos.
- Part 1: a first look at the new menu (Credits, Help, Game Options)
- Part 2: how to open a new game in basic mode
- Part 3: how to load a saved game
- Part 4: the revised world map, saving a game
- Part 5: a look at the overview maps (stock of goods in the cities, production and progress of production in the cities, locations and cargoes of all trading units, cities with unassigned colonists)
- Part 6: how to open a new game in expert mode, the map generation tool
Feedback is appreciated by the author. (dr)
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07.Sep.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Voting for the Community Award of the Amiga37
On October 15/16 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). It is now possible to vote for the award recipients of the "Community Award" under the title link. For this a registration via e-mail address is necessary (if not already done for the ticket purchase anyway).
You can choose between:
- 10MARC
- AgedCode
- AgentSmith
- Alf24de & Transi
- AmigaBill
- Amiga Future Team
- AmigaOS3.2 Developer Team
- Andreas Magerl
- Anthony & Nicola Caulfield
- Arne von Boehn
- Bartman
- bebbo
- ChuckyGang
- Dennis Pauler
- DigitalKeeper
- DJCook
- Edgar Schwan
- ElrondMcBong
- Frank H aus L
- halbvier
- hese
- Hoffman
- Jamie Morgan
- John Girvin
- juen
- kas1e
- Kefir
- Kevin Saunders
- Marvin Droogsma
- Matthias Münch
- mattymuc
- Matze
- McGeezer
- Michal Schulz
- midwan
- mntmn
- Muzza
- NovaCoder
- Oliver Roberts
- Paulee Alex Bow
- Paul Kitching
- phx
- PiStorm
- Pitt Rock
- spieleschreiber
- Steve Jones
- TerribleFire
- The AmigaGuru
- thorfdbg
- Tigerskunk
- Toni Wilen
- trixie
- Virgill
- walkero
(snx)
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07.Sep.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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MPEG audio: MHI developer archive 1.2
As Thomas Wenzel wrote, MHI was developed by him and Paul Qureshi, with the help of Dirk Conrad, because current systems (mpega.library and the mpeg.device) do not offer the features modern applications such as AmigaAMP require. For the first time the first beta version of AmigaAMP v2.9 fully supported version 1.0 of MHI (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.2 contains:
- Enhancements to the specification to
- tell the application to support other formats beyond MPEG audio
- officially support extended sound control (5- or 10-band equalizer)
- a bug-fixed MAS player driver which now no longer overwrites the contents of some registers, especially A6, for certain functions. This bug was discovered by Szilárd Biró, who ports games to 68k and plays the music via MHI.
(dr)
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07.Sep.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2022 in Spoleto (Italy)
'Passione Amiga Day' is the meeting of Amiga users in Italy, organized by Passione Amiga, the printed magazine for Amiga enthusiasts and users in Italian, with commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests and a flea market. It will take place in the historic center of the city of Spoleto on September 18, 2022 with free admission (amiga-news.de reported).
As the organizers now announce, several commercial exhibitors will participate, including the publishers of Zzap!, ACube Systems, Virtual Works, Retrogaming & Toys, und RetroGiovedì who will present the new version of Waffle: a device that allows to use Amiga disks under PC emulation. (dr)
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07.Sep.2022
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Pre-order: MiST 1.5 with metal case
Przemyslaw 'Lotharek' Krawczyk offers a MiST revision 1.5 including metal case for about 212 Euro plus shipping in a pre-order campaign, which runs until October 10. The MiST revision 1.5 will be produced if there are enough orders. In the revision 1.5 many technical changes were made to simplify the automatic assembly (PCB redesigned, power supply reworked) and the MiST now is equipped with 64MB DRAM.
"MiST" (GitHub page), originally developed by Till Harbaum, is an FPGA motherboard that is supposed to emulate different home computers or arcade machines by means of different "cores". Originally intended as a pure Atari ST clone and therefore - analogous to Minimig - named "MiniST", a Minimig core initially ran on the hardware. Since then the project is called "MiST" (aMIga/ST) (amiga-news.de reported).
Supported Systems:
- ST/STE (also on SCART 15KHz)
- Amiga 500/600/1200 (AGA CORE BETA core)
- C64 (partially - still in development)
- Atari 8bit (96%)
- Collecovision
- ZX81
- Atari 2600
- ZX Spectrum with AY, also with DIVMMC and ESXDOS
- SEGA GENESIS
- Apple
- MSX
- AMSTRAD CPC (BETA)
Hardware to be provided by the customer:
- USB keyboard
- micro USB phone charger for power supply
- SD card (1GB recommended)
- VGA monitor
- USB mouse
- PC speaker
(dr)
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06.Sep.2022
Boris Huhn (ANF)
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DTP: Pagestream 5.1.2 update for Windows and MorphOS
For users who had purchased a full version of the DTP application Pagestream 5 for said systems in the past, an update to version 5.1.2 was uploaded by Deron Kazmaier today. In addition, a demo version is also available for MorphOS, among other things, for which you must first indicate your interest with your name and mail address.
This MorphOS release contains significant contributions from MorphOS developer Frank Mariak to make version 5 working and more stable on MorphOS. (dr)
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06.Sep.2022
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.5.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
A few moments ago, version 3.5.1 has been released. Changes:
- fix issue with short jump calculations being done incorrect in certain circumstances, causing crashes.
- fix casing of math ieee functions to match original E modules
- disable OPT POOL and OPT UTILLIB in legacy mode
- disable THISTASK, __POOL and UTILITYBASE in legacy mode
- reinstate [] in immediate list to previous E functionality (a blank 0 item list)
- fix optimisation issue where MOVE.B (A0),D0 and MOVE.W (A0),D0 followed by TST.L would be optimised incorrectly.
- fix issue with immediate lists, ListMax() could not be used as the max size was not populated.
- allow 0 length lists to be created eg List(0)
- add showhunk source
(dr)
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06.Sep.2022
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra (update)
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool. This framework includes a suite of software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting (GitHub page).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released a first Amiga extension, which can load Amiga Hunk executables and Kickstart images, include NDK 3.9 symbols.
Update: (08.09.2022, 19:38, dr)
With the update 20220908 released today, now among others WinUAE state files (.uss) can be loaded. (dr)
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05.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #132 - Amiga CDTV
Issue 132 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about the Amiga CDTV. Another video reviews the FastATA MK-V harddisk controller by Elbox for the Amiga 1200 under AmigaOS 3.2.1. (snx)
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05.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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AmigaOS 4: The Battle for the Solar System - The Pandoran War
After George 'walkero' Sokianos ported the platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 the other day (amiga-news.de reported), he has now ported the shoot'em up "The Battle for the Solar System: The Pandoran War" by Stephen J Sweeney and Parallel Realities using SDL.
The required data files have to be downloaded from the page The Battle for the Solar System. After unpacking the file "tbftss-1.5.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz" twice to a hard disk location of your choice, the data is available. Sokianos' archive is also unpacked there, prompts to overwrite some files must be confirmed. Additional information about the game can be found in the file README-OS4.md.
Those who want to support the author have the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. 50% of the donations are returned to the community by the author at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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05.Sep.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Production of Kipper2k delays
At the end of May, we reported on a status update from the American retailer "Amiga On The Lake" regarding the Kipper2k replacement keyboards: there, it was reported that all pre-orders should be fulfilled by the end of June 2022, mid-July 2022 at the latest.
As was reported three days ago, there is a delay in the production of more keyboards for the last dozen pre-orders as well as for the regular sales stock. They would have completely underestimated the excessive lead times that would be involved in manufacturing the circuit boards. All the parts would be available in sufficient quantities to build the keyboards, except for the circuit boards. In order to reduce the delays, other sources and solutions would now be sought. (dr)
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04.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to Aminet:
DesignerSP.lha dev/hwood 1.2M HW Designer 6.0 spanish catal...
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.7M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
spacecadetpinball-aos... game/actio 4.0M OS4 SpaceCadetPinball
Magazyn.lha game/think 191K 68k New Sokoban-type game with gf...
AmigaBreaks-AutumInKo... mods/misc 191K track by Amiga Breaks - Autum...
LN42022Philly.lha mods/misc 18M LN4 2022 Phillipines by HKvalhe
LN4Lv6.lha mods/misc 3.5M LN4Lv6 Plane Crash by HKvalhe
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 318K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 85K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip pix/misc 86K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip pix/misc 80K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 82K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 83K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 80K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
trackfoo_v0_14.lha util/cli 12K 68k Read or Write one track CLI tool
aes_v1_20_mos.lha util/crypt 19K MOS AES-256 ECB file encryption C...
aes_v1_20_os4.lha util/crypt 27K OS4 AES-256 ECB file encryption C...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 6.8M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
spacecadetpinball.lha gam/act 4Mb 4.1 SpaceCadetPinball ported to Amig...
augustus.lha gam/str 3Mb 4.1 Augustus -AmigaOS4 SDL2 port of ...
weather.lha net/mis 17kb 4.1 weather env vars for your titlebar
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
regina-doc.lha doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc
redeclipse.i386-aros.tar gam/fps 133Mb FPS Game
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.24.0_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 : SD...
Iris_1.4.lha Email New email client suppor...
AES_1.20.lha Files/Crypt AES-256 ECB file encryp...
Asterix-CaesarChalleng... Games/Action Asterix-CaesarChallenge...
Knights_and_Dragons_Op... Games/Action Knights and Dragons - T...
Wayfarer_4.0.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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04.Sep.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158
The English and German issue 158 (September/October 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes Playfield 14 as well as reviews about Vanilla Conquer and Terrible Fire 330. (snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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Point'n Click adventure: AGA version of "Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen"
We had reported about the announcement of the point'n click adventure game 'Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen', originally developed for the Amstrad CPC, also about a first preview video. The release for OCS-Amigas itself including an interview with the author we mentioned in the article about the second issue of the French print magazine Boing.
The availability of an AGA version of the game has now been announced via YouTube video. As with the OCS version, orders and reservations can only be made by mail. The OCS version, of which 100 physical boxes were produced, cost 39 Euros including shipping in the EU. Some boxes of the AGA version are also available. With each box version the adf files are also provided. More info from the author.
- 320x200x256 colors
- redrawn all the places (60 screens)
- redrawn all the sprites, inventory objects, npc, GUI
- 3 minutes of soundscape added (made of 150KB of samples)
- 4 disk (instead of 3)
(dr)
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03.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" v0.34 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he has released version 0.34, providing a pinball game concept as well an updated slot machine example. (dr)
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02.Sep.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.13
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
Version 0.9.13 released today provides the following changes:
- When editing the level the collision map can be displayed on top of the map with the Show Tile Cols checkbox.
- Games not using hud will consume less Chip memory.
- When editing text, non ASCII characters will be converted to the closest ASCII character.
- Reduced screen width is used correctly in triggers and camera.
- Added Condition trigger On Landed that detects when an objects hits the ground.
- Audio files path tries to correct itself if the file is not found.
- Added trigger Play Sound Random to play from a range of sounds.
- Added action trigger Stop CD32 that stops the CD audio.
- Loading a level now stops the CD audio if playing.
- Adjusted lower limit for map width values.
- Optimization in memory copy operations.
- Fix in collisions when moving very fast to the left.
- Fix for copper palette from a file not being exported to the Build.
(dr)
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02.Sep.2022
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Accelerator board: Buffee developers test TF1200
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports that due to the existence of a TF1200 by Stephen Leary they are able to test Buffee on the Amiga 1200 as well. Already 2021 she had announced in a tweet that the TerribleFire turbo card supports the Buffee project. (dr)
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02.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the seventh beta version with the following changes:
- Added new open source pthread library (and removed the old one)
- Fixed ncurses/termios problem
- Fixed non-blocking stdin when used with socket and poll
- Changed DOS library requirements to v52 instead of v54
- Added misc folder to SDK installation and package that contain terminfo entries
- Fixed a bug in spawnv function was causing a bad exe filename and a memory leak
- Added flock function. Fixed a problem on record_locking was not allocating memory correctly
- Added stdio_ext functions (except __freadptr)
- More bug fixes and improvements
(dr)
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02.Sep.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Yesterday version 1.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- gw: New formats ibm.800 and ibm.2880
- gw: New image format *.MGT
(dr)
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02.Sep.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- July/August 2022 news
- News: The big Commodore brand heist
- Old Joystick articles 49 to 54: News: Aladdin - Disney and Virgin amaze us, Report: Hollywood in the digital age, Review of Elfmania, Interview with Sid Meier, Review of The Ultimate Pinball Quest, News: Team 17 - team spirit, games for everyone, Interview with David Lester, Review of James Pond 3: Operation Starfi5h, Review of Sexual Fantasies, Report: European Computer Trade Show of April 1994, Review of Arcade Pool, Review of Disposable Hero [CD32], etc.
- Interview with Daniel Jedlicka (musician and developer on AmigaOS 4)
- Interview with Anthony Rosbottom (graphic designer)
- Review: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows
- Hardware: Furia S628
- File: Hidden messages and Easter eggs in AmigaOS
- File: The history of Trecision (first part)
- Tutorial: Presentation and use of Reggae
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part four)
- DIY: Reducing the size of an HxC SD and adding a small LCD screen
- Special quiz on Amiga video game characters (act 2)
(dr)
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02.Sep.2022
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Demo scene: "Nano Gems" offers selection of the best intros
The "Nano Gems" page, a subpage of the demo platform Demozoo, gives a curated selection of the best small intros from the demo scene. It aims to give a quick overview of what kind of small intros exist in different size categories and platforms. The intros are sorted by date and alphabet, which in no way reflects a ranking. The productions in this list are curated and suggested by members of the "Sizecoding Discord". Additional productions may be suggested.
The "Oldschool" category also includes four Amiga demos:
(dr)
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01.Sep.2022
Reddit
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Newspaper: Guardian article with Amiga 500 picture
In the Guardian article "Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop" published today, a picture of an Amiga 500 opens the report about Japan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, who after abolishing the fax now wants to banish the floppy disk as well - but meets resistance from bureaucrats in the process. (dr)
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01.Sep.2022
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Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives lots of tips and info on a dedicated webseite (see also our Excursion of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware).
According to Zoltan Balaton, the now released version 7.1.0 (changelog) fixes a potential incomplete DMA on the Sam460ex, which only affected AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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01.Sep.2022
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THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V2
"Pandory500" is a "cross-loading" firmware for the THEA500 mini that allows many other emulators and programs to run (YouTube video). It is installed in the form of a WHDLOAD package and exploits a hidden feature of the Amiberry emulator to run native code. It runs completely from the USB stick and is 100% removable.
Among other things, version 2 now supports firmware 1.1.1 and more gamepads than the original firmware. More free memory is also available. (dr)
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01.Sep.2022
Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of month August
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of August. (dr)
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01.Sep.2022
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Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible.
There exists many SPI peripherals that can be connected to this adapter. The SPI adapter comes with a source code library, spi-lib, that is used to perform reads and writes to the SPI peripheral. For each kind of SPI peripheral, however, a separate driver needs to be written that uses spi-lib, and exposes the functionality of the SPI peripheral to the operating system using some suitable interface.
In the directory examples/spisd an example of how an SD card module can be connected to the SPI adapter, and a driver is provided that lets AmigaOS mount the SPI card as a file system.
Version 2.1, released yesterday, fixes a bug in the SD card device driver of version v2.0, which did not work correctly with the Amiga 3000 or 4000. (dr)
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